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WellThatsSurprising Member
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| Subject: Re: The Millennium Falcon Fri Jan 23, 2015 10:23 pm | |
| - mr.modified wrote:
- New goal to add: Hot rod magazine drag week 2016.
Shhh, don't tempt me. I'm already going to be going down to Carcraft to meet the Roadkill guys this summer. - Doug Fackler wrote:
- I bet it wont even run under its own power hue.
Hush, you. - Craftsman1998 wrote:
- When the cars done do you think it could do the kessel run in 12 parsecs (Only star wars nerds will understand what im saying lol)
UNDER 12 parsecs. | |
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Moose Established Member
Age : 34 Join date : 2014-01-12 Points : 4714 Posts : 919 Location : Defiance, Ohio
| Subject: Re: The Millennium Falcon Sat Jan 24, 2015 6:45 pm | |
| - Craftsman1998 wrote:
- When the cars done do you think it could do the kessel run in 12 parsecs (Only star wars nerds will understand what im saying lol)
And only the nerdiest of nerds knows that a parsec is a measure of distance and not time! 8B | |
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| Subject: Re: The Millennium Falcon Tue Feb 17, 2015 5:16 pm | |
| It's pretty easy to figure out when I get paid, a bunch of neat boxes start showing up at the door. Innovate LC-2, one of the best wideband setups there is IMO. Timing chain kit because I don't trust the previous owner. - Moose wrote:
- Needs more turbo!
Who needs a turbo when I have 300HP right here? | |
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| Subject: Re: The Millennium Falcon Tue Feb 17, 2015 5:31 pm | |
| Wait, so what engine are you building. you had this one and that wrong one and ones locked up or somethin'.... im lost. Looks like the engine from the red one being built insted?? maybe lol | |
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Age : 26 Join date : 2012-04-30 Points : 4770 Posts : 407 Location : East Bethel, MN
| Subject: Re: The Millennium Falcon Tue Feb 17, 2015 5:36 pm | |
| - redlinemotorsportts wrote:
- Wait, so what engine are you building. you had this one and that wrong one and ones locked up or somethin'.... im lost. Looks like the engine from the red one being built insted?? maybe lol
The engine from the red one is getting freshened up and thrown in to hold me over while I build up the RB25. | |
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mr.modified Veteran Member
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| Subject: Re: The Millennium Falcon Tue Feb 17, 2015 7:41 pm | |
| Where do I buy the super sticker kit? Or have you just been saving them? | |
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Age : 26 Join date : 2012-04-30 Points : 4770 Posts : 407 Location : East Bethel, MN
| Subject: Re: The Millennium Falcon Tue Feb 17, 2015 7:51 pm | |
| - mr.modified wrote:
- Where do I buy the super sticker kit? Or have you just been saving them?
Just type in racing stickers on Ebay. | |
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Age : 26 Join date : 2012-04-30 Points : 4770 Posts : 407 Location : East Bethel, MN
| Subject: Re: The Millennium Falcon Thu Mar 12, 2015 10:18 pm | |
| Wideband is in, going to check the condition of the heater core with an aquarium pump and then I can put the dash back in. Oh hey, I knew there was color underneath all that crud! Unfortunately, that's not the only thing I found today... Here comes the carnage of what was all in the oil pan. And there's a bunch more little shavings in the oil pan itself. Now this leaves me two options. Option one, I extend my deadline for getting the car done, miss one of my favorite carshows of the year and rebuild the engine right. Option two, I slap it together with what new parts I have and run it until it dies. Ding ding ding, option two is a winner! Now, I'm sure you're all wondering where those big ol chunks came from. Yeah well me too. My first guess was casting chunks. From my experience with working on DSMs I know they have a tendency to throw off bits, and with early 80's quality control I wouldn't be that surprised. Nope. I went over everything in the crankcase with a flashlight and no jagged edges were found. Second guess was that the oil pump went kaboom. Nope. While the ring does have some pretty nasty scoring there's no chunks missing here. That's about as far as I can get today. With those two things out of the equation these chunks are pretty likely to be from somewhere behind the timing cover. Tomorrow I'll be bringing home the tools from work so that I can pull the crank pulley and get all the covers off and the mystery shall be revealed. | |
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Age : 26 Join date : 2012-04-30 Points : 4770 Posts : 407 Location : East Bethel, MN
| Subject: Re: The Millennium Falcon Tue Mar 17, 2015 8:40 pm | |
| Well, I honestly have no clue where those chunks came from. Everything in the crankcase and behind the timing cover looks okay. I even pulled some of the rod and main caps and the bearings didn't look that bad either. Not great, but not bad. Got the head and flywheel back from the machine shop, now I'm gonna button the engine back up and take it to my buddies house so we can pressure wash it. Then comes the white. Wideband controller goes in the glovebox, ECU will too once I'm finished soldering it together. As time goes on, more and more stickers make their way onto my louvers. Maybe someday the louvers will actually make their way onto the car. | |
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| Subject: Re: The Millennium Falcon Sat Mar 28, 2015 7:46 pm | |
| Looking good! Bits of metal appear to be a woodruff key, some melted pieces of something (odd) and who knows about that big piece in the center. Part of a piston skirt? You would think that much stuff in there and there would be something obvious. Kinda strange. You've got a spare engine anyway right? You can build two engines up and always have a spare in the shop. | |
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Age : 26 Join date : 2012-04-30 Points : 4770 Posts : 407 Location : East Bethel, MN
| Subject: Re: The Millennium Falcon Sun Mar 29, 2015 5:36 am | |
| - mr.modified wrote:
- Looking good! Bits of metal appear to be a woodruff key, some melted pieces of something (odd) and who knows about that big piece in the center. Part of a piston skirt? You would think that much stuff in there and there would be something obvious. Kinda strange
I thought that one piece was part of a piston skirt too at first, but nope. And yeah, that definitely is a key but not for anything I could find. Anyways, got some brake work done today. Cutting off the backing plates for the drums. Disk brackets on! Then comes rotors, a friendly sight. At that point though I had to stop with the rears, I don't have the right hardware to bolt up the calipers. Probably going to run to Menards tomorrow and grab a bunch of stuff. With those done as far as I could I moved up to the front and replaced the rotors as well as re-packed the wheel bearings. Same story with the front calipers as the rear. After that I mounted the ECU in the glovebox along with the wideband controller, pretty soon I'll be able to get the dash back in the car. And of course I had to take a beauty shot as I was closing down for the night, damn I love this car. | |
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802 Customs Member
Age : 24 Join date : 2015-01-08 Points : 3521 Posts : 146 Location : Vermont
| Subject: Re: The Millennium Falcon Sun Mar 29, 2015 10:56 am | |
| That's a really good looking Datsun you got there, I really like it in silver. What ECU are you running? | |
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Age : 26 Join date : 2012-04-30 Points : 4770 Posts : 407 Location : East Bethel, MN
| Subject: Re: The Millennium Falcon Sun Mar 29, 2015 11:34 am | |
| - 802 Customs wrote:
- That's a really good looking Datsun you got there, I really like it in silver. What ECU are you running?
MegaSquirt 1 on a V2.2 mainboard. Thankfully the distributor this engine runs has a built in ignition module so I only need to control fuel. It'll work for now but once the RB goes in I plan on upgrading to a MS3 or something Haltech. | |
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| Subject: Re: The Millennium Falcon Sun Mar 29, 2015 11:52 am | |
| - WellThatsSurprising wrote:
MegaSquirt 1 on a V2.2 mainboard. Thankfully the distributor this engine runs has a built in ignition module so I only need to control fuel. It'll work for now but once the RB goes in I plan on upgrading to a MS3 or something Haltech. Yeah I figured you were running megasquirt for fuel delivery because you said you have to finish soldering it together. | |
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Age : 26 Join date : 2012-04-30 Points : 4770 Posts : 407 Location : East Bethel, MN
| Subject: Re: The Millennium Falcon Mon Mar 30, 2015 9:18 am | |
| Alright, kinda sorta finished up the rear brakes only to run into another problem. Can you spot the problem yet? The damn wheels don't clear. My initial measurements showed they would be just fine but they scrape by about 2mm. Hopefully I can get enough clearance with a spacer. At least there were no problems with the fronts. | |
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| Subject: Re: The Millennium Falcon Mon Mar 30, 2015 3:24 pm | |
| That's a pain. Did you pump the brakes up and everything? Extra room once the pads wear in a little. Well, not the caliper on the front wheels maybe, I'm guessing they don't move. | |
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| Subject: Re: The Millennium Falcon Mon Apr 06, 2015 11:32 pm | |
| Ordered a set of 1 1/2" spacers, should be here sometime next week. But for now, I finally have a passenger seat! It's ugly af and doesn't match at all, but hey, it's a seat and it fits. Good enough for now. Started on replacing bushings. I don't have a press at home so the ones that don't pop out easy get burned out. More prepwork on the block. At first I was just going to run the stock exhaust manifold because it already had an O2 bung in it but the thing is pretty damn heavy and isn't very good on looks either. Long tube to the rescue! Picked this up for free off a friend and I'm going to take it to school tomorrow and weld in a bung and just clean it up a bit. I might paint it white like the rest of the engine but I'm not sure yet. Also not sure weather or not I'm going to run it open or weld up a little bit of pipe to make it dump just past the front tire. | |
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| Subject: Re: The Millennium Falcon Tue Apr 07, 2015 8:05 pm | |
| Gettin stuff done. O2 bung is welded on so I threw the head back on the engine real quick to see what the header will look like. Damn, I can't wait to hear this thing run. Started painting too, coming along nicely. | |
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| Subject: Re: The Millennium Falcon Thu Apr 09, 2015 12:59 am | |
| So when I bought this paint I was under the assumption that this was just ordinary spray and let dry style paint. Nah. This is header coating that needs baked to fully cure. Oh well, just gonna have to find something else for the block because I'm pretty sure that it won't fit in my oven as easy as this did. | |
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